William streeter richardson



(No Model.) H W. S. RICHARDSON. FASTENING F611 GLOVES OR OTHER ARTICLES.

No. 557,703. Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

ANDREW B.GHAHAM.PHOTO UTMQWASHINFFDNJ Cv UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' \YILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BALL AND SOCKET FASTENER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,703, dated April 7, 1896. Application filed December 9, 1889. Serial No. 333,091. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern; material to which the fastening is applied. Be it known that I, )VILLIAM STREETER Fig. 9 shows the relation of the collet orturn- RICHARDSOX, a citizen of the United States, ing-washer to the other section of the fastener residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk before they are united. Fig. 10 represents 5 and State of Massachusetts, have invented a the parts shown secured together, with a ball new and useful Improvement in Fastenings member H applied thereto.

for Gloves or other Articles, of which the fol- The socket-fastening is made up of three lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, principal partsfirst, the cap; second, the inreference being had to the accompanying termediate flange or ring, having the yielding to drawings, forming apart of this specification, sides or jaws which form the socket, and, in explaining its nature. third, the fastening device, which is attached The invention is a development of the fas to the cap before the fastening is secured in tening, shown and described in my Letters place on the glove-flap or other article. The Patent No. 260,050, the principle of the de cap is formed from the disk A by first strik- I 5 vice being substantially the same as that deing up the disk to the shape shown in Fig. 2, scribed in said patent, the improvement conwhich provides the rounded top a and the sisting in various features of construction and short sleeve 0. 13 is a disk of spring-brass application whereby the fastening is cheapin which the slit Z) has been formed. The disk ened and when applied has the appearance thus formed is submitted to a forming opera- 20 of a button, which for certain styles of goods tion, wherebythe sections are bent downward is considered to be of some advantage. or away from the flange, so as to form the Referring to the drawings, Figure l repreyielding jaws or sides 0 o and the ring 0 from sents in plan view a blank from which the which the jaws or yielding sides project. cap of the socket member of the fastening is For the fastening part of the device I use 25 made. Fig. 2 represents in vertical elevation an eyelet D having a flange (Z, and it is fasthe first form to which the cap portion of the tened to the cap with the jaw-ring by drawconstruction is reduced by striking in suiting the sleeve (1 of the cap upon the under able dies. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank surface of the eyelet-flange, so that it and the from which an intermediate piece or section jaw-ring are held between the flange a of the 0 of the fastening, comprising the ring with cap and the inner surface of the top thereof.

yielding sides extending from its inner edge, (See Figs. 7 and 8.) is formed. Fig. at represents in inverted po- W'hen the eyelet shown in Figs. 6 and 7 is sition said intermediate section after it has employed, a hole is formed in the material in been submitted to a forming action in suitwhich the socket member of the fastening is 3 5 able dies, whereby the yielding sides have attached, the eyelet passed through the same, been struck down from the flange or ring. and its lower section upset in the colletplaced Fig. 5 represents a vertical section of the inon the under surface of the material. This termediate section reversed. Fig. 6 is a vercollet has a central opening, the inclined surtical section of a flanged eyelet such as may face g and the flange g overlapping it and 40 be used for securing the cap and intermediate forming the space 9 The lower edge of the socket-ring to a glove-flap or other article. eyelet striking this inclined surface of the col- Fig. 7 illustrates in vertical section the way let is turned under the flange g, as reprein which the parts are assembled immediately sented in Fig. 10. This member of the fasbefore a fastening is submitted to the finishtening device when secured in position will 45 ing operation, and it comprises the cap, the have the cap and the ringsupporting the jaws 5 intermediate ringorflanged socket-piece, and or yielding sides of the socket member and a flanged eyelet, the flange of the eyelet and one flange of the fastening-eyelet upon one of the socket-ring being in contact. Fig. 8 is side of the material and the other flange of a fastening device in the nature of a collet the fastening-eyelet upon the other side.

50 which is used upon the under surface of the This device can be used with any ordinary IOO form of ball-button, or with a stud H, as represented in Fig. 10. This stud is formed from a cap-eyelet, previously provided with the neck h, by first inserting the same through a hole in the material, then slipping a washer upon the same, and then submitting the special washer to pressure, by which it is flattened and its opening contracted about the neck of the stud. This makes a very cheap form of stud and a very efficient method of fastening it in place.

One of the advantages which arise from making the socket member of the fastening in the way herein specified is that the jaws or yielding sides are made of springbrass, while the remainder of the fastening can be made of soft easily-formed metal. This provides great durability to the principal wearing part of the fastening.

Another advantage is that the fastening, while it retains all the essential features of my said patented invention, can be made more cheaply, and still another advantage arises from the fact that it is more firmly and readily secured in place and in a more compact form.

It will be observed that the cap performs two functions. First, it acts to cover the yielding sides or jaws and prevent dust and dirt from reaching the same, while at the same time it improves the appearance of the fastening, and, second, to keep the socket or jaws securely in place and provide means whereby additional fastening devices may be employed for securing the socket or jaws rigidly in position.

It will be seen that the ball-receiving member of the fastening has its parts assembled together and united before they are secured to the material-that is, the flange of the ballholder and the flange of the fastening-eyelet are locked or secured to the cap by the folding or lapping of the edge of the cap upon the under surface of the eyelet-flange. This secures the parts together before they are used, making this section of the fastening easy to handle and to apply.

It will also be seen that the fastening as thus made has the cap, the fastening-eyelet extending therefrom secured to the cap, and a ball-holder having a flange also held or secured to the cap and having its ball-holding section extending downward into the barrel of the eyelet, preferably to such an extent as to bring its lower edges very nearly if not quite flush with the under surface of the flange of the eyelet after it has been turned. This manner of holding the jaws and arrangement of the jaws is of importance in that it permits the barrel of the eyelet to hold the ball or head of the fastening in whole or in part and in that it permits the use of a cap either slightly rising from the material to which it is secured or curved, or even flat, the ball-holding space being well within the barrel of the fastening-eyelet; and it will be further observed that this result is obtained without increasing the edge thickness of the fastening to any appreciable extent.

I would say that the form or shape or man ncr of making the ball-holding section of the fastener is immaterial.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States In a fastening for gloves and other articles, the combination of a member comprising a cap, a flanged eyelet, and a ball-holder having a yielding socket-entrance within the barrel of the flanged eyelet, the eyelet and ballholder being united to the cap by the edge of the cap which is lapped upon their flanges, immediately adjacent thereto and a collet or eyelet-turner having a cone for turning, receiving, holding, and finishing the edge of the eyelet in applying the fastening, and also forming an opening to the said yielding socket entrance, as and for the purposes described.

WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON.

\Vitnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN. 

